THE. RA CE. TRA CK Pompoon's Futurity-New Hospital List-Buslzranger N OVV that Pompoon has won The Futurity, there's no reaSon for not telling you all about him. His name is a not particularly clever combination of the names of his father, Pompey, who won The Fu- . turity eleven years ago, and :'-. of his mother, Oonagh, who :ft was a rather moderate sort of mare. He was bred by \V. R. Coe, and bought by Jerry Louchheim, a chubby finan- cier from Philadelphia, for $2,0-00 at the Saratoga yearling sales in 1935. He is bay in color, and stands six- teen hands high. Incidentally, his legs are so long that his stride is nearly fifty per cent greater than that of the average two-year-old, which obviously gives him an advantage in races. He gallops three mornings a week, and apparently likes it (at present he's being unwound pre- paratory to going into retirement for the remainder of the season). He eats eight quarts of oats and several sizable trusses of California hay a day, as well as corn, carrots, and other kickshaws. If you visit him in his stall at Belmont Park, he will beg for sugar. He has run seven races this year, winning six and finish- ing second in the other, which he'd have won also if he hadn't been ridden so badly; and his prize money amounts to $ 78,420, $56,790 of which he earned in The Futurity. Pompoon won The Futurity easily. Impressions through the best glasses on the roof of the stand were that he waS caught in the jam caused by John P. War, one of those horses who always do the unexpected, but Richards quick- ly and cleverly steered Pompoon to the outside. Halfway home, Billion- aire, Charing Cross, and Privileged were well up in the closely packed mass. Then Pompoon came strolling away as though he'd win by a dozen lengths. At the quarter pole, Privileged charged, and for a breathless second we thought he might go on and take the lead, but he weakened. Then, right at the end, Flying Cross came up with a perfectly electrifying burst of speed, and would have been second in another stride or t 7 \ two. Oddly enough, the winner of The Futurity seldom trains on to be the best three-year-old. Granville, if you re- member, made the same brilliant, though futile, challenge in the race a year ago as Flying Cross did last week- end. Right now, Flying Cross is my choice for the Pimlico Futurity next month. Sonny vVhitney said in the spring that Flying Cross was his best colt, and he may be right. Billionaire cracked, and Sir Damian held on better than his handsomer stablemate, Charing Cross, while Optic was crowded and bumped so much he must have felt like Greentree's ponies af- ter the matches with Argen- tina. The other runners in The :Futurity really aren't much. You can forget them. I T was inevitable that something should happen to Granville before the season ended. Bad luck and mishaps in training wore down all the other good three-year-olds-and we really had a lot of good ones in April-but I wish they had held off long enough for Gran- ville to run for the Jockey Club Gold Cup. He scuffed an ankle a few days before the race, something a Cup horse really mustn't do. Although Granville won't run again this year, William Woodward says that his colt will be out again in the spring, which is encourag- ing, as we need all the good horses we can get. The Jockey Club Gold Cup didn't take much winning, however, for Count Arth u,r just galloped Jean Bart and Memory Book dizzy. Now my little class of an1ateur handicappers wonders how much more easily Action would have won the Cup if he had been eligi- ble to run for it. Earlier in the week, he gave Count Arthur ten pounds and a beating in the Manhattan Handicap at one mile and a half, and they would have met at equal weights in the Cup at two miles. And speaking of dizzi- ness, V\T rong Horse Harry wonders if Giant Killer, who ran so well in the Lawrence Realization, had syncope in the Manhattan Handicap. Discovery is through with what is left of the seaSon and may never return to racing. All too late for those who'd backed him at odds-on for the Havre de Grace Handicap, in which he ran unplaced, it was found that he had ten- don trouble in his hind legs. That's probably what made him run as though he were sulking. V\Thile we're on the subject of odds and legs, the most ridiculous price quoted for a horse an season was 1-4 81 . Have you heard a Victor Record ;? . ... D o Victor Records mean little more to you than nostalgic memories of youthful canoeingwith a portable phono- graph? 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